Garbage can



Oct. 8, 1940. A B, CQUCH 2,216,807

GARBAGE CAN A Filed July 19, 19:57

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My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in garbage cans, and has for its principal object to produce a garbage can in which the odors usually emanating therefrom are counteracted or neutralized. Another object of my invention is to produce a garbage can in which the deodorizing apparatus is relatively simple, and is to be attached, preferably, to the cover of the garbage can, such attachment being readily accomplished. By destroying `the odors that usually emanate froma garbage can I also keep down the insect pests which generally assemble around garbage pails.

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of my improved garbage can with the handle for the cover partly broken away.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of

my improved garbage can.

Fig. 3 is a top plan View, partly insection, taken on the line 33, Fig. 2, lookingin the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged, detail, sectional view taken on line 4-4, Fig. 1.

In the drawing, the garbage can, of usual construction, is designated by the numeral I and is provided with a bail handle II secured thereto. The cover I2 is formed in the usual manner, with a flange I3 at its circumference adapted to fit about the upper portion of the garbage can I0. The cover I2 is provided with the usual handle I4 whereby said cover may be manipulated.

In the center of the cover I0 I provide a circular depression I5, and in Ithe center vof said depression I5 I provide a circular opening I6 about 11/6 inches in diameter. The circular depression I5 is about inch in depth. The opening I 6 provides an outlet for deodorized gases from the garbage pail, as well as serving as an opening for replenishing the deodorant, either liquid `or solid, to be hereinafter referred to. The circular depression I5 also facilitates the'pouring of water or other liquid into a container, within the garbage pail, to be hereinafter described.

Attached to the under surface of the cover I2 is a container I'I, preferably by welding. For the average size garbage can the container I'I is usually circularin form `and about 6 inches in diameter and about 2 inches deep. I'he wall of the container I'I is imperforate except near the upper portion thereof, Where a series of circular openings I8 is provided. These openings` are-1%; inch in diameter, are equallyspaced apart, and are 1% inch below the under surface of the cover, and they are twelve in number.

Adjacent the inner surface of the wall of the container lIl is acopper wire screeny I9, to one side of which is secured a fabric mesh 20, preferably by stitches 2| at the top of the container I1, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, although such stitches can of course also be placed at the bot- 5 tom of the contain-er if preferred. The combined copper screen I9 and fabric mesh 20 extend from the floor of the container I1 to the top of said container. The copper screen I9 and fabric mesh 2E! combine to form a member A, which member rather closely engages the inner wall of the container II and serves to screen the gases arising from the garbage as such gases pass through the member A. As the member A is closely adjacent to the openings I8 in the upper portion of the container I1, gases accumulating in the garbage canv Il) are drawn through the openings I8 into contact with the member A,

` and thereby are subjected to the deodorant carried up by capillary attraction by the fabric mesh 20, which has its lower portion immersed in a liquid 22 in the container I1, which liquid contains a deodorant suitable for the purpose of deodorizing said gases. The result is thatwhen the deodorized gases passed through the screen get into the upper portion of the container I1 and escape through the perforation I6, such gases are no longer obnoxious.

It has been my experience that as fast as the gases in the garbage can I0 are formed, they are immediately drawn into the container I'I through the openings I8 and subjected to the deodorant 22 carried by capillary attraction by the screen A.

By actual experience I have found that a deodorant need only to be renewed about every tendays, and that a small amount of water, about a cupful, need be supplied every two or three days, which keeps my improved garbage can thoroughly deodorized.

As the gases form in the garbage can they can only escape through the openings I8 in the container I1, induced by the central opening I6, which acts as a flue, in the cover I2, and as all such gasesy must pass through the deodorantimpregnated screen A, such gases are effectively denuded of their offensive odors.

\ I claim:

1. A garbage can provided with a cover therefor, said cover having a centrally located aperture therein, a container on the inner side of the cover and carried thereby and surrounding said centrally located aperture in said cover and in open communication therewith, and a screen surrounding the inner periphery of `said container, said screen comprising a metallic mesh and a fabric material secured against said metallic mesh, said container being provided with a series of apertures adjacent the top portion of said container whereby gases accumulating in said garbage can may escape from said garbage can, said fabric material being impregnated with a deodorizing solution.

2. A garbage can provided with a cover therefor, said cover having a centrally located aperture therein, a container on the inner side of the cover and carried thereby and surrounding said centrally located aperture in said cover and in open communication therewith, and a screen surrounding the inner periphery of said container, said screen comprising a metallic mesh and a fabric material secured against said metallic mesh, said container being provided with a series of apertures adjacent the top portion of said con- 20 tainer whereby gases accumulating in said garfabric material being impregnated with a deodorizing solution, and said screen being positioned against the inner, vertical surface of said container.

3. A garbage can provided with a cover therefor, said cover having a centrally located aperture therein, a container on the inner side of the cover and carried thereby and surrounding said centrally located aperture in said cover and in open communication therewith, said container being provided With a series of circumferential openings through the upper portion of the vertical wall thereof, and a screen and a fabric material attached to said screen surrounding the inner periphery of said container, said container being provided with a seri-es of apertures adjacent the top portion of said container whereby gases accumulating in said garbage can may escape from said garbage can, said fabric material being impregnated with a deodorizing solution.

LEO B. COUCH. 

